Month: October 2011

I had a very welcome surprise last week when the mailman handed me a package. I was a bit perplexed as I hadn’t ordered anything recently, so wasn’t expecting anything. I had my first clue on seeing the name and callsign of the sender on the front – Darwin Piatt W9HZC. Inside I found a […]

A little under 2 weeks ago, I blogged to share my surprise and joy at achieving a QSO with T32C on Kiritimati with my Fort Tuthill 80 – a simple 4 watt transceiver with a direct conversion receiver designed by Dan Tayloe N7VE. What made the QSO even more surprising was that the antenna was […]

OK, I’ll give in and do one more T32C post. A lot of people have been posting their T32C logs in their blogs and on Google+, so I’ll post mine here: Certainly not one of the more impressive, but it was the best I could do as I contacted them on every band and mode […]

Anyone who reads this blog or follows my Twitter could well be excused for getting a little fed-up of my constant references to wanting to build a K2. I’m very good at delayed gratification, and my usual technique in order to avoid spending money on unnecessary things is to wait a while and see if […]

I remember John AE5X blogging a while ago now about a cheap capacitance meter that read the capacitance values out in Morse code. Some time later, on searching around online, I found a cool-looking and cheap meter on Sparkfun. John blogged about this meter too. More recently, anticipating an upcoming need for such a device, […]

In the last post I reported that I had made contact with the T32C team on 40M with 4W from my Norcal 2N2/40, and also with 4W on 80M from my Tut80. The goal was to make a contact with them on every band I have capability for here, which meant just one more band […]

The main reason for this post is to share my surprise and joy at the fact that the night before last (Friday night) I worked T32C with my Tut80 – a QRP rig designed by Dan Tayloe N7VE that has a direct conversion receiver and a CW transmitter that in my particular case, puts out […]